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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






2. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






3. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






4. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






5. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






6. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






7. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






8. A strong pause within a line.






9. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






10. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






11. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






12. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






13. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






14. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






15. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






16. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






17. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






18. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






19. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






20. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






21. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






22. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






23. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






24. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






25. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






26. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






27. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






28. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






29. What a story or play is about.






30. The main character of a literary work.






31. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






32. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






33. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






34. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






35. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






36. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






37. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






38. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






39. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






40. Broken down acts.






41. The time and place of a story or play.






42. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






43. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






44. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






45. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






46. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






47. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






48. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






49. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






50. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.